Hopefully Biden who is neither douche (American phrase) or a turd
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Martin Alvito
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Control of the House could easily end up settled in courtrooms, as things stand.
Even if it doesn’t a 5 vote margin is a whole lot better than I expected and hopefully reduces the risk of eg a debt ceiling crisis substantially.
Thank you Captain Obvious
But what we need vs what is reality are two different things sadly
What the midterms say to me is that the Republican brand has been decisively weakened by Trumpism - the crazier wing of the party was trounced in all but the most crazy of districts (where someone like MTG can win decisively). Moderates, by and large, are running from the party.
The smarter, younger version of Trump is DeSantis (who I'd say is the Giant Douche), and he won in a landslide in Florida, which was only surprising in the sheer magnitude of the win. If I were a Republican, I'd want him to win the nomination in 2024 - he could successfully con enough people in the middle in swing states to vote for him.
However, Republicans pick their candidates in primaries, and Trump's base is so large, vile and quite frankly, stupid enough to keep voting for him. He's the Turd Sandwich. It's very possible he will be the nominee again in 2024. Because there is no way his ego will let him cede control of the party to someone else.
On the Democratic side, literally no one wants Biden to run again - but there is no clear party- and county-unifying option to take the helm. The midterms tell me that most Americans want some semblance of normalcy more than anything else. So if it's an 80 year old Biden again, and he's the best (only) option to keep us from going down the rabbit hole, then so be it. Midterms usually go against the presidency, so these midterms show me, if nothing else, Biden is not nearly as toxic as the media wanted us to believe.
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The one certainty is that a razor-thin Republican majority will have trouble passing things. Everyone will have their hands out come budget time. The debt ceiling kabuki could get very interesting. I can imagine a world where McCarthy pays off some safe-seat defectors with pork to vote with the Democrats, then lets it hit the floor and has the rest of his caucus vote against.
That's some crazy framing in referring to a set of both women and men who exercised their right to vote against what is clearly a ridiculous invasion of personal autonomy.
This is an interesting one
You could also see it play out that R's in purple districts who aren't crazy will vote with Dems who are trying to pass bills trying to get things done - if their districts want to get things done. They might think they can't get primaried with a crazy candidate, b/c why would the GOP try to win a purple district with a crazy loon - look how that played out this midterm cycle.
What the primaries showed is there might be safe R districts, but not safe candidates from those districts. If Liz Cheney can lose a primary soundly, anyone can.
No one should take seriously the anonymous reviews on Ratemyprofessor, but this one about Brad Wilcox was pretty funny:
"Took this class thinking it would be a broad-based sociological perspective on marriage and the family. Instead, got a twice-weekly lecture about how women's rights have ruined our society and about how gay and black people just can't get it right. If you want to learn from someone who doesn't think the 50's were the Garden of Eden, look elsewhere."
You'd think mate, but people keep voting for these people I'd worry about lending a car to never mind running a state and helping run the country
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